VIDEO: Father Peter Heers – Orthodoxy & The Heterodox

23 thoughts on “VIDEO: Father Peter Heers – Orthodoxy & The Heterodox”

1. Always a pleasure hearing from father Peter!

2. Thanks to Fr. Peter for bringing a concise, clear message on the differences. As one discerning the call to come home in the Orthodox Church, this video just confirmed so much for me.

3. As a Protestant from the Reformed tradition, I would love to hear more intelligent dialogues between our different churches. There is so much of Orthodoxy that intrigues me. I also love my church so much. So much is based upon misunderstandings. The most difficult area of difficulty seems to be sola scriptura.

4. Thank you for this episode! As a former Roman catholic and novice in two different orders (studied Thomas Aquinas) before entering the Orthodox Church, I have found that there are major differences. Orthodoxy is a whole different mindset in the way it 'positions' mankind before our Lord and God. The therapeutic approach of the Church as a hospital is missing from the roman church because of its legalism. How often we sing to Him to have mercy on us and we depend on His great mercy…it's very liberating…one is able to worship God as He intended to be worshipped!!

5. Hi Dr. Herman. Can u please help me understand about the soteriology thing that Fr. Peter was talking.

6. "It's the whole man that needs to be saved… and only in the Orthodox Church does one encounter the Whole Christ…"

   Loved that! 🙏☦️

7. In a nutshell, short and sweet and true!

8. I really dislike how people downgrade the differences between the Orthodox and Roman Catholics. It does a disservice to Christ.

9. I disagree with the validity of just about every assertion in this video.

10. 1:55 => "In the Orthodox Church, our vision is that salvation is a process of purification, illumination, ending in theosis, deification, or glorification." –> This helps me. Thank you, Fr. Peter.
    And thank you to this channel.

11. Awesome little video! Thank you, Father Peter!
    Christ is Risen!

12. This was seriously on point!

13. Filioque The Triad God of Orthodoxy has only ONE WILL!
    Filioque is the greatest example of practicing theology in the absence of Revalation in the absence of the Holy Spirt in the absence of knowing God personally he most imoportad precognition for the Heavenly Kingdom! Filoque teaches that the Holy Spirit is PROCEEDETH FROM THE FATHER and the SON both!
    
    If indeed the Holy Spirit is PROCEEDETH FROM THE FATHER and the SON both as Filioque suggests, then this means that there are TWO (2) WILLS in the ONE TRIAD GOD that PROCEEDETH the Holy Spirit! The Father and the Son both!

14. Thanks, Fr. Peter with the Love of Christ Charles!

15. We must remember that for so many centuries the west was Orthodox and shared the same understanding of salvation, the sacraments, understanding of theosis, etc. even with a healthy diversity of liturgical rites and traditions. Certain regions were even more monastic than the east; for example the British isles and Ireland, which did not have large cities comparable to the Mediterranean and the Near East with Metropolitan bishops but rather the bishops were often heads of monastic communities. Many saints are abbots and abbesses like St. Hilda of Whitby. The faith of these men and women was the same as the Cappadocian fathers or the fathers of the Egyptian desert and all other Orthodox centers of that time and which continued in the east. The prayers of the saints are helping those in our day return to Orthodoxy. As much as it is important to understand Orthodox teaching and how it differs from heresy, sometimes it is helpful to sit back and read the lives of the saints because through them we see the common faith they had and lived regarless of their background

16. What diocese is Fr. Peter under?

17. The fullness of Christ for myself was felt so deeply upon the first time I went in an E.O. And I knew that what was there could be found nowhere else. Christ is risen!!!

18. I became Orthodox in my late twenties. I am now over seventy.and I have the honor and privilege to spend my last years as a priest. Being Orthodox is the greatest adventure that anyone can experience. To actually experience the presence of God is a blessing beyond description and beyond compare.

19. I see that copy of The Brothers Karamazov behind him👍 🙏☦🙂

20. Don't pray for "reunification of the churches" if you are Orthodox.

    The "Roman Catholic Church" is not a church and they are leading people away through their heresy. I'm a former protestant and no protestant association is a church, either. These aren't different branches of Christianity. True Christianity is ONLY found in the Orthodox Church and ONLY believed by faithful Orthodox. Period.

21. Our differences of soteriology are interesting: you believe prayers and other practices of piety are means of salvation. We protestants believe that be cause we were saved, now we can pray and enjoy piety. Of course theres a final redemption, our body, but we definetely are not afraid of losing our salvation, we trust in the obedience of Jesus, if we happen to stumble. For us its more likely Philipians 2:12:"work out your own salvation with fear and trembling". We re constantly developing and growing a salvation attained and secured, thanks to our Savior.

    Of course any divergence will affect our communion, but unless one is upset and willing to cause animosity by the pretext of different soteriology, i dont think why this could hinder our talk. When Apostle John said that he prohibited one individual to not mention the name of Jesus, just be cause he didnt hang out with them, Jesus rebuked vehemently John saying " whoever speaks good of me cannot go on saying bad things of Me". This spirit of "we are chosen, and you re wrong" was rebuked 2021 years ago.
    I wish to hear more material of your soteriology.

22. The fundamental issue with the Filioque is that the council of Chalcedon in its dogmatic definition explicitly affirms the Nicene Constantinopolitan Creed is PERFECT in its teaching on the Holy Spirit.

    Only the faithless attempt to make addition to the perfect.

    That’s the whole essence really.

23. As a former Protestant earnestly looking into Orthodoxy, Fr Heers is really refreshing to listen to amid some of the less… zealous Orthodox voices you can encounter online.

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